This question was raised by a teacher as a possible idea. Getting a diagnosis of dyslexia can be helpful, but if you expect it to translate into extra support for learning, that doesn’t automatically happen. Even back in the olden days, dyslexia diagnoses didn’t receive resource hours. The mad thing

🚨 New Blog Post Is the Free School Book scheme good politics but bad pedagogy? I think so. https://simonmlewis.substack.com/p/is-the-free-school-books-scheme-good

@playful_classroom suggests that we could introduce Reading Classes into primary schools. What are your thoughts? #unconvention #anseoReading [reading-04]

Rituals are not a bad thing, and this is our family’s one. If you’ve never tried a Parkrun, I highly recommend it. As well as getting in a 5km walk/run in the morning, you get to join a lovely community of people in your locality. I went along to the

Many of the responses have spoken positively about UFLI, or UFLI Foundations, a highly popular phonics program based on the “Science of Reading”. It is designed to teach students explicit, systematic foundational literacy skills like letter-sound recognition, decoding, and spelling. However, is it the silver bullet for teaching reading or

I watched a three and a half minute TV segment on Communions, and this is how many times they mentioned religion. https://open.substack.com/pub/simonmlewis/p/i-watched-a-three-and-a-half-minute

Another recurring theme was the increasing complexity of classrooms. It is clear from the discussion that many teachers feel they are firefighting. Large class sizes, a huge range of abilities and increasingly complex additional needs mean that literacy intervention often becomes diluted. If you could remove ONE barrier that stops

Several contributors to our unconvention spoke about structured literacy and the science of reading, while others questioned why Ireland pours substantial resources into Reading Recovery despite ongoing concerns about outcomes and evidence. Tell us your thoughts on Reading Recovery. Do you use it in your school? Have you stopped using